The new Regensburg synagogue stands on the place where, in 1912, the proud building had been constructed. However, she looks conscious of is completely different than the one the Nazis destroyed the building.
The inauguration of a synagogue is a big celebration. It is less about the building. The Torah stands at the center, the large Scroll with the first part of the Hebrew Bible, the five books of Moses. Dancing and singing the Torah to be worn rollers in the new house of God, where they stowed Rabbi Joseph Chaim Bloch in the Torah closet.
With the blessing of the Rabbi dedicated to the new synagogue of Regensburg. For Joseph Chaim Bloch, and the Regensburg community is a dream come true. “Now we finally have a hall where we celebrate. For our people, but also for the city. And a synagogue, which has earned it the name of the synagogue,” the Rabbi.
The inauguration of the Torah rolls were taken from the old prayer hall in the Torah Cabinet of the new synagogue.
memories of the destruction
The new Regensburg synagogue stands on the place where, in 1912, the proud building had been built on an art Nouveau-style synagogue, with its imposing dome. In the night of the 9. November 1938, the Nazis burned throughout Germany Jewish synagogues fire and destroyed, also went on the Regensburg synagogue in flames.
In this dark Chapter, the Chairman of the Jewish community of Regensburg, Ilse Danziger: “An uncontrollable Lust for destruction and destruction, cruelty, and humiliation of the victims reminded at the inauguration drove the terror commandos of the national socialists, who roamed the city. In the Wake of this command a growing followed the crowd. In the rainy Burger night of broken glass you broke at their neighbors, vandalized their apartment, the abused, with deadly consequences.”
the few, The Regensburg Jews, who survived the Terror, and in the city were stayed at the 4. April 1942, at the place where the synagogue used to stand, for transport to the extermination camps gather.
The predecessor building was burned in 1938 by terrorist commandos of the German national socialists.
Building for the future
Today, a synagogue stands in the middle of the old town of Regensburg, close to the Cathedral. The construction of the new office, “Staab Architekten”, Berlin planned. Architect Florian Nusser has not based on the historical model. It is a friendly, sand-colored building. In the Interior, the Pine woodwork creates a warm atmosphere and good acoustics. “We are building today and for the future, therefore, it is a contemporary building,” says Nusser. As the only analogy to the old synagogue, you could possibly see the dome.
The new building cost nine million euros.
the fight against anti-Semitism
The date for the inauguration was not chosen by chance. Exactly 500 years ago, the Jewish community had been expelled. Also in 1519, the synagogue was destroyed and the entire Jewish quarter was razed to the ground. For the Bavarian Minister for culture Michael Piazolo these century-old history of persecution of a reminder, in the fight against anti-Semitism is not: “Each of us must ensure that the open and covert anti-Semitism has no Chance. We need a culture of Hinschauens. We must not stand by and watch, when Jewish citizens are treated with hostility, if you wear a Kippa.”
For the President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Joseph Schuster, is the inauguration of a new synagogue, one of the most beautiful and important events for a community and a city. Because of the Jewish community, as a shoemaker at the dedication, the will, existence, life-affirming and future-oriented in Germany.
inauguration of the new synagogue in Regensburg
Tilmann Kleinjung, BR
27.02.2019 14:51 PM
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